Sharon Baptist Church Senior Pastor

Bishop Keith Wayne Reed, Sr., a native Philadelphian, was born to the late Fannie Elizabeth and John T. Reed on July 31, 1957. He was one of five children.

On June 2, 1984, Dr. Reed united in holy wedlock to the former E. Lynn Williams of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania. To this union four children were born: Anyah Elise, Keith Wayne, Jr., Aleya Erin, and Kristian Wade.

Dr. Reed received his education in the Philadelphia School System. He is a graduate of the Parkway Program High School, the Pennco Tech Automotive Technology School, the Bethlehem School of Bible, and the Philadelphia College of Bible. In June 1997, he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Divinity from Geneva College through the Center for Urban Theological Studies.

In 1982 Dr. Reed served nine months as Interim Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church, and in January 1983 he was installed as Pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church. As a result of his pastoring, prayerful teaching, and implementation of ministries and staff, the church has grown from approximately 200 to 6,000 members and growing. Dr. Reed provides leadership to nineteen full-time staff persons and seven part-time staff persons. Dr. Reed's ministry has produced several "sons" in the ministry who are now pastoring their own churches. In January 1998 Dr. Reed founded and established the Sharon Bible Fellowship in the Washington, D.C. area.

Dr. Reed is so grateful to the Lord for his many blessings. His life verse is I Timothy 1:15 which reads, "This is a true saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."